What is MXF?
MXF stands for Material eXchange Format which was designed to streamline workflows between different platforms, such as cameras, digital editing equipment, and servers.
MXF is a "container" or "wrapper" format which supports a number of different streams of coded "essence", encoded in any of a variety of video and audio compression formats, together with a metadata wrapper which describes the material contained within the MXF file.
There are Mainly three data-recording camera systems which produced MXF, Sony's XDCAM, Panasonic's DVCPRO P2 and Canon's XF series.
MXF and NLEs
Sony's XDCAM MXF is supported by Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Sony Vegas Pro, GrassValley EDIUS/K2, and Merging Technologies VCube. However Adobe Premiere Pro has been encountering exporting issues when working with mxf files.
Panasonic's P2 MXF is supported by Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Autodesk Smoke, Avid, Dalet, EVS, GrassValley EDIUS, and Grass Valley K2.
Canon claims that its flavor of MXF is fully supported by major NLE systems including Adobe Premiere, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer, and Grass Valley EDIUS.
Obviously, Sony, Canon and Panasonic not claim that MXF camera is supported by Windows Movie Maker. Is there no way to import MXF to Windows Movie Maker for creating a movie?
Windows Movie Maker and Supported format
Windows Movie Maker is a free video editor from Microsoft on Windows 7 and Windows 8. It is a part of Windows Essentials software suite and offers the ability to create and edit videos as well as to publish them on SkyDrive, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. Windows Movie Maker only supports a few videos formats like ASF, WMV, MPG, AVI, MP2, here we list the file formats are supported for importing into the Windows Movie Maker:
| Video file types (format) | File name extensions |
| Windows Media Video (WMV) files | .wmv |
| Windows Media files | .asf and .wm |
| AVCHD files | .m2ts, .mts, and .m2t |
| Apple QuickTime files | .mov and .qt |
| DV AVI files | .avi |
| Microsoft Recorded TV Show files | .dvr-ms and .wtv |
| MPEG 4 movie files | .mp4, .mov,.m4v, .3gp, .3g2, and .k3g |
| MPEG 2 movie files | .mpeg, .mpg, .mpe, .m1v, .mp2, .mpv2, .mod, .vob, and .m2t |
| MPEG 1 movie files | .m1v |
| Motion JPEG files | .avi and .mov |
From above video format table, it is obvious to notice that Windows Movie Maker deals with the MXF files hardly.
Method: How to Import MXF Files to Windows Movie Maker?
The MXF file format is a container format and MXF files can be converted into other video formats when needed. That is to say, you can transcode the MXF files into other format like AVI, WMV or other compatible format list above, then it should be editable in Window Movie Maker.
In this case, you just need a MXF Video Converter to CONVERT the MXF files you want to Windows Movie Maker. Brorosoft MXF Converter / Brorsoft MXF Converter for Mac is just the one you are looking for, it's a smart tool specially designed for Panasonic. Sony, Canon users to preview MXF recordings, and convert the MXF recordings to the video and audio format that supported by Windows Movie Maker.
What’s more, it can generates more optimal editing formats/codecs for you to use in different NLE apps, such as Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro CC/CS6/5/4/3, Sony Vegas, Adobe After Effects CC, etc.
Apart from an excellent video converter, Brorsoft MXF Converter also allows you to adjust video size, bitrate, frame rate, codec and other video/audio parameters according to your need. It is a perfect combination of video converter and video editor.
Guide: Transcode MXF Files to WMV/AVI for Windows Movie Maker
Free download, install and run Brorsoft MXF Converter, the trail-before-purchase quick download icon provide here, you can also turn to Brorsoft page for downloading.
Keep in mind that you have download the right version, Mac OS .dmg files cannot be installed on Windows platform - and vice versa.
The conversion speed is very fast because it supports batch conversion and NVIDIA CUDA & ATI Stream (AMD APP) acceleration technologies. It converts multiple video clips at the same time, moreover it can shut down computer after the process is complete, so run the app overnight and you could enjoy the created videos next morning when you are up.
Step 1: Import Sony Pansonic Canon MXF files.
Click the button “File” to add Sony Pansonic Canon MXF files (or directly drag and drop your files) to the Converter.
Tip: If you want to merge MXF files before edit in Windows Movie Maker, just need to check the “Merge into one” box.
Step 2: Select an output format for Windows Movie Maker.
Click “Format” bar to select suitable format for Windows Movie Maker. WMV is one of the proper formats for Windows Movie Maker.
Tip: If you like, adjust video and audio parameters, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., by clicking the Settings button on the main interface for getting the best quality.
Step 3: Start Conversion.
Tap the big Convert button on the main interface to start transcoding Sony Pansonic Canon MXF to Windows Movie Maker.
The conversion should be quickly finished. Once the process is at 100%, you can have the converted file easily worked with Windows Movie Maker.
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